Description

Into the Outside is a major, multi-partner heritage-learning project with local young people, re-examining the city’s rich LGBTQ+ past and creating a new archive of queer youth experiences.

The exhibition charts the progress of the project and includes creative writing, photography and archive material.

Supported by respected photographer Helen Cammock, young participants are examining how issues faced today by young people identifying as LGBTQ+ compare with those faced by young LGBTQ+ people over the past forty years.

Participants are exploring a range of archive materials, including the National Lesbian and Gay Survey – an extraordinary collection of autobiographical writing and ephemera submitted by over 700 people between 1986 and 1994.

“Difficult to define a part that meant the most, as the whole exhibition was hugely stimulating and provocative in terms of images, texts and archival material”.

“It is always important to document stories of different people’s coming out, to talk about it and make them public. It helps to increase awareness, it can encourage other LGBTQ people to come out, and show the diversity of our sexuality in general”.